Strengthening Hospital Nursing: A Program to Improve Patient Care

This initiative, Strengthening Hospital Nursing: A Program to Improve Patient Care, jointly funded with Pew Charitable Trusts, was designed to encourage hospitals to undertake institution-wide restructuring in order to provide better patient care by improving nursing services.Under this grant, the grantee will complete a plan for restructuring the workplace for nursing services including a detailed implementation proposal for submission to the RWJF and Pew Charitable Trusts for Phase Two of the Strengthening Hospital Nursing Program. Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center is an urban hospital with 397 beds.